"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne

Greetings From Your Personal Chef

Harriette Bugel
Chef for Hire!

The aprons seen throughout these pages were all made by my grandmother as birthday gifts for myself and my mother ... truly functional works of art!

"Like falling in love for the first time I enter the kitchen with passion and abandon. As a personal Chef for Hire, I find that combining meals from scratch is stimulating yielding all kinds of ideas from the motion and commotion of a kitchen stirring."

True Color Cooking is all about celebrating life, the journey we share and the part food plays in the mix. My earliest childhood memories are in the kitchen. Those basic skills from Mom have served me well over the years. Like many of you I have finally decided to make my passion my life's work.

The menus and food art I create from local, organic sources can easily be adapted to meet food allergies and sensitivities to gluten, corn, wheat, peanuts, soy, eggs and dairy, as well as meet medical recommendations for arthritis, autism, diabetes, cancer, ADD/ADHD, and celiac conditions.

Join me for dinner, won't you? ... I follow the age-old rituals of hot foods hot and cold foods cold, serving everyone from a common table and continuing the global tradition of the International Slow Food Movement, promoting the use of local, seasonal, sustainable and ethically produced comestibles.

Now on to the good stuff ... Cooking in the company of friends makes work time play time ... When do we eat?